Some reports indicate album title is "Western Son" and a planned tour in the fall is in the works. I just hope he makes an album that is good or even great on its own terms...and unlike other popular artists from a different era he doesn't go chasing the ever elusive "cultural relevance" trap...that has lead other legends to try out autotune or flavor of the month producers... think U2 or Paul McCartney's use of Ryan Tedder and auto-tune!

Hope we get a smaller-than-arena venue tour of UK playing solo. It's the only way I would spend the money to see Bruce live these days. The full band shows in arenas and stadiums are just exhausting, not in a good way.

I'm as big of a Springsteen fan as they come but I'm not interested in another album of retreads, outtakes or re-recordings ala Wrecking Ball and High Hopes. A BITUSA box is, I believe, a requirement of his Sony contract so I imagine we'll see that in time for the holidays. There is no E Street Band activity planned for this year so I think we're more likely to see a tour next year. Can't imagine he'd follow up a year of Springsteen on Broadway with a different solo show this year but I guess it could happen.

I'm guessing that the two images posted to his social media feeds are stills from a music video for a first single... this latest image appears to be mid-dissolve part Joshua Tree image part fireworks display... just a guess.

You’ve said you have an album done that’s influenced by Glen Campbell and Jimmy Webb’s collaborations.
I don’t want to overemphasize the influences too much, because people may hear it and go, “What’s that got to do with that?” But it was sort of a place where I found some inspiration.

Is that a different record than the one you almost finished before Wrecking Ball?
It’s the record I wrote before Wrecking Ball but could not finish, and in attempting to finish it, I wrote Wrecking Ball. So the roots of the record go back quite a ways. Sometimes you have to wait for these puzzles to sort themselves out, and it can take years. I mean, I have a record that I’ve been working on that’s 20 years old. That’s just the way the process is working at the moment.

What’s the pace of your songwriting now, compared with the 2000s, when you were extremely prolific?
Well, Wrecking Ball came, I would say, easily. The albums and songs have been coming along for quite a while. But I haven’t written in a while right now, outside of the record that I have ready.

I'm as big of a Springsteen fan as they come but I'm not interested in another album of retreads, outtakes or re-recordings ala Wrecking Ball and High Hopes. A BITUSA box is, I believe, a requirement of his Sony contract so I imagine we'll see that in time for the holidays. There is no E Street Band activity planned for this year so I think we're more likely to see a tour next year. Can't imagine he'd follow up a year of Springsteen on Broadway with a different solo show this year but I guess it could happen.

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So i assume that you weren't a fan of Drive All Night, Independence Day and other released songs that had been rejected or left off other projects but included on later albums?

So i assume that you weren't a fan of Drive All Night, Independence Day and other released songs that had been rejected or left off other projects but included on later albums?

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Those also came from the most prolific period of his or anyone else's career. Working on a Dream and High Hopes were pretty much disjointed albums of scraps and don't compare to the Darkness or River sessions. Studio versions of Tom Joad and Land of Hope and Dreams were hardly needed either.

Those also came from the most prolific period of his or anyone else's career. Working on a Dream and High Hopes were pretty much disjointed albums of scraps and don't compare to the Darkness or River sessions. Studio versions of Tom Joad and Land of Hope and Dreams were hardly needed either.

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While i don't disagree with a lot of your assessments, my overall point is bruce recycling songs from past sessions is nothing new.